Knowledge Sharing Between Higher Educational Institutions: Evaluation of a Transfer Platform

The paper presents a platform for knowledge and technology transfer processes and relevant information for higher educational institutions (HEIs). Nowadays knowledge transfer or third-mission activities are daily business for universities. Nevertheless, they often lack internal standardized processes and procedures. Every HEI tends to establish their own way of efficiently handling transfer activities, without sharing their knowledge with other HEIs. The presented platform outlines standardized processes with knowledge from several HEIs, presented in digitized form. The processes and the platform were evaluated with use cases and a standardized user experience questionnaire (UEQ). The results presented in this contribution indicate a high need for and positive perception of the processes and the platform

Project Management as a B2B Service in the automotive development process

The German automotive industry currently not only faces the effects of COVID-19 on the supply chain but also a disruption by new technologies and new competitors. In order to rise to these challenges, project management must be improved and partners along the supply chain must be integrated more tightly. One part in accomplishing this, is to provide an interorganizational project management service between all involved partners. In order to improve, we first have to understand the current implementation of project management services between the OEM and suppliers and examine what the different actors expect from these services. This working paper addresses this issue by conducting a literature review as well as interviews with project management experts in the automotive industry